Lasagna

Total Time: 2 hrs 15 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 2 hrs

Ingredients

• Servings: 12
• 2 (15 ounce) cans tomato sauce (hunt's)
• 1/2 green pepper, diced
• 1/2 onion, diced
• 1 (8 ounce) container mushrooms (optional)
• 1 teaspoon garlic salt
• 1 1/2 lbs ground beef or 1 1/2 lbs ground turkey
• 1 (8 ounce) box lasagna noodles
• 1 teaspoon butter
• 1 (16 ounce) container small curd cottage cheese (not ricotta)
• 1/2 cup mayonnaise
• 2 -4 cups mozzarella cheese

Recipe

• 1 brown meat, onion, and green pepper (and mushrooms if desired), adding garlic salt. drain fat.
• 2 add tomato sauce and bring to a simmer, cover and cook for at least 1 hour.
• 3 meanwhile, cook the lasagna noodles in salted water (reserve the cooking liquid) until barely al dente (about 7 minutes) and combine the cottage cheese and mayonnaise in a bowl.
• 4 preheat oven to 350°f.
• 5 grease a 13x9 pan with butter. evaluate the sauce, if it has cooked for a long time and lost a lot of liquid, thin it by adding 1/4 cup at a time of cooking liquid from the noodles. add as much as desired to get the right consistency: thick but spreadable. this will also make your sauce "sticky" so it will coat the noodles.
• 6 spoon a thin layer of sauce into the bottom of the dish. layer noodles (overlapping if necessary), 1/2 meat mixture and 1/2 the cheese mixture.
• 7 cover with the rest of noodles, meat and cheese mixture. top with shredded mozzarella.
• 8 you can store this in the refrigerator or freezer at this point until ready to heat. allow extra time for reheating from cold or frozen state. spray a sheet of foil with cooking spray and cover the lasagna with it. bake for 1 hour.
• 9 uncover and continue baking until the cheese is bubbly and browning.